# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gaetan-picon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:45:40.454Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gaetan-picon"
name: "Gaëtan Picon"
slug: "gaetan-picon"
description: "Gaëtan Picon was a French author: essayist, art and literature critic, and art and literature historian. He was director of the Mercure de France and Director-General of Arts and Letters under André Malraux. He wrote an entry for the Encyclopaedia Universalis on Swiss publisher Albert Skira."
tagline: "French art critic (1915–1976)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-09-19"
deathDate: "1976-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.85
  momentum:             1.00250626566416
  historical:           5.949137333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Picon"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Picon"
    title: "Gaëtan Picon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Picon"
    title: "Gaëtan Picon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Picon"
    title: "Gaëtan Picon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Picon"
    title: "Gaëtan Picon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Picon"
    title: "Gaëtan Picon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Picon"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3099933"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump